524 0-V 7777i PRICE OF BUILDING MATERIALS. 



Single quarters are often bought by the dozen at Oxford, 

 and by the piece at Eton. They are from $s. to 4^. the dozen 

 up to 1638. The last entry in 1648 is at 6s. They are also 

 bought by the hundred at Cambridge and Eton, and once 

 by the foot at the former place. 



Double quarters by the dozen are from 6s. to los. at Eton, 

 the last entry being in 1638. Twice they are bought in the 

 earlier years at Cambridge by the foot, and once in the seven- 

 teenth century. The prices are \d.^ \d. and id. In 1620, 

 there is an entry of ceiling quarters at a penny the foot. 

 Double quarters are bought by the hundred at Cambridge 

 (1623) at 6s. $ld. 



Between 1584 and 1649, there are thirty-five entries of elm 

 Aboard. After the last-named year, no more have been found. 

 The average in the first decade is 5^. i\d. the hundred, in the 

 second 5^. q\d., in the third '/s. 4^d., in the fourth 8s. 5^., in 

 the fifth 6s. M., in the sixth Js. 9^., in the seventh los. $d. 

 These prices will be found to correspond to the decennial 

 averages of oak board. The average is Js. 4\d. for the 

 seventy years, for oak board 75. nd., so that oaken board is 

 twenty-five per cent, dearer than elm board. Towards the 

 close of the period, three entries of elm plank by the hundred 

 are found ; of these the average is 53^. 9^. The plank must 

 have been of great thickness. 



In 1588, I find ost board at us. the hundred, in 1589 cress 

 board at 8s. 9^., in 1608 nicht board at 8s., in 1652 fittway 

 board at 8j. 6d. Between 1592 and 1616 there are five 

 entries of eveslaths at prices varying from 43. id. the hundred 

 to Ss. ^d. Once, in 1602, they are sold at id. each. Eve- 

 board by the hundred, and probably the same article, is at 

 6s. id. the hundred in 1601, at 6s. $d. in 1602, and at 5^. ^\d. 

 in 1639. Featheredge board, corrupted to feveridge in 1613, 

 is at 5r. ;\d. the hundred in the former, 5^. 8d. in the latter 

 year. In 1593, three hundred board quarters are sold at 2s. 

 each. 



DEALS. On one occasion, and in a London account,! found 



